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Lancaster, S. C.
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a boy
SUBSCItll'TION I'HICK: years
Casli in Atlvunce. (II(|
One Year <2.Ob shorti
Six Mouths 1.00 1
_ t leiuix
Entered as Second Class Mattel true!
October 7, li'05, at tho l'ostotlice al
Lancaster, S. C., under act ol' Congress
of March 3, lo79. niul 1
t lie si
TUESDAY, FED. 11, 11)19. i,oy u
he ha
*Ky Country 'Ti? of The?, Sweat Lantf
of Lih-rtv"
? ianie,'
and i
SENTENCE SERMONS. ?u. st
her ol
It is virtue not ancestry that .\ ,
makes men noble.?Anon. tilkin
Conscience is the highest of all in tin
courts.?Victor Hugo. stnokt
As half in shade and half in sun drittei
This world along its path advances \ineri
May that side tho sun's upon i-aine
He all that e'er shall moot thv .
hcgim
glances! Thomas Moore.
+ Sam I'
What a man does for others not ,j1(.|S
what they do for him. gives him im ..
anythi
mortal it v.?Webster
+ at a t
He that does pood to another man at (j,c
does also pood to himself; not onlv .
. oned
in the consequence, hut in the vary
act of doinp it, for the consciousness ,'11
of well-doinp is ample reward. ever ^
Seneca. pot in
men v
EDITORIAIjETTEW. had
quiet);
A little snow now and then is rel- this s
ished hy tho best of small boys and I One ol
girls. killed
he ha<
Chicapo has a woman candidate1
ot the
for mayor and if she is elected and
ter fro
can stand it Chicapo onpht to.
inp on
When the legislature adjourns was c
the roads will have been built, allj death
but grading; and laying the concrete ' home
* j the tr
There is many a dog who has been
I And at
railed a sheep-killing dog who hasl
I that 11
never seen a sheep in his life. |
^ I food. |
The I'nited Stales has passed a1 ,\ fc
bill providing for $200 000.000 for down.
good roads Good roads come high th rn
but they are worth it. "Were
It is recorded that countries
which wouldn't behave have been 1
made to behave. The Bolshevik
inv fin
ought to take note
m | will gt
The peace conference at last can worth
be said to be working as fast as sev-'thing
I
eral state legislatures which are in young
session at the same time. 'othei
; ~I ibout I
Well, if the railroad employes
I lie slu
think they can run the ra lroads
I soldier
hettei than the owners It's not the
i eplied
first time the employes have fe t that
V.ts III
way.
9 and h?
Of course, a law to compel the the gi:
motorist to stop stock still at grade ubs
?tossii sounds good but who is sore,
going to know whether ho stopped ' 1
or not? were i
The follow who hadn't bought any v jj;|
War Savings stamps needn't worryj j
about those to ho issued of $100 de ,.oll|,|
nomination If ho wouldn't buy five 'jiic
dollars worth, he'll hardly huy a inoin
hundred ? row d
('aide rates were paid on a disNor
patch saying that President Wilson
. _ , . . van roc
went to church Sunday, hut we know
. ... ? Carol!
some men who would eroate more of,
Memm
a sensation than that by going to
.. , l Kinstc
ehurch.
m j latere
And all these fellows who are they t
worrying about the non-owners of! them
automobiles who will not be called state
on to help pay for the toads can propot
hunt up something else to worry fined
about for there won't bo any. Caroli
r
?
THE LAN
TAI<K1XG TO KOLK8. O.uolina's and Georg
wounded soldier was seated in a connected up as a gi
nger station waiting- for the they agreed with me.
that would take him to his state, from what I
iri North Carolina. A piece of poses to issue state
mel had hit him in the hip and amount of about $!
alked by the use of crutches, a period of ten yea
al men gathered 'round him struction and mainte
.\ere interested in his narrative Of course, it is expe
fe in the camps overseas and sum will be secured
dash through the Hindenburg eral government, an
in which tight he had received imately fifty million
ound. He was little more than j North Carolina w ill
; he looked to be about twenty system of roads. The
old. llis left leg was twisted together dissimilar
an inch and three-quarters j Una's plan. The aui
!'r than normal. Since Sep-jtax is to be raised
m when the German shell cents per horsepower
v hi.n he has been in hospital ' mated that there are
overseas and in this country and 100,000 auton
ast week was discharged from state. At that rate
ervice. Could you believe this; amount of money w
as cheerful in the face of what that to be raised li
d been through? lie was. lie 55,000 automobiles
hat if his leg ever got well, and horsepower and $2.
ii almost tyear his weight upon North Carolina, has
v, and I'ncle Sain got into an- stretches of concrete
war, he would he ready at the heen found practical.
And he believes that leg is tions of the caster
to get well. "Maybe, it'll be state brick Is being
" he said, "but 1 11 get all right, nient. Between CI
f I don't, Uncle Sam won't let High Point, a dista
arve." This boy was a mem- miles, there is a conci
the Thirtieth. J highway sixteen feet
couple of men who had been known as the Warn
g with the soldier helped him j material being the p
s train and went back in the> ren brothers. a ros
?r. The conversation naturally | concern somewhere 1
1 to the war and the part that This road waa co
can boys had in it. A soldierJ throo
years ago.
in and sit down, immediately. Krea(or pa,t ,,f lt
ling to throw bricks at Uncle teeing the city of I
or the way he treated the sol- just been completed.
overseas. "We didn't have 000 p,,r Inile but jn .
ing to eat for forty-eight hours, an allowance of $4.50
ime and no water for a week made foI. tlu> Kradln
time, the (>eimans had |???i heeji done when the
th? wells and we were afraid ,|oW11 some yoan
nk the water. If Uncle Samjroad reallv had a t()t,
;ets into another war he won't I B00 per mjle It has
V Mil tl-Atlf Alll The
....v. . ... | n11 kinds or travel ;
k ho who had listened hut who J ,)4.w The niaintenan
themselves said littie | the first three years I
y thinking of the contrast Kn>le Property vah
oldier and the wounded one. rouij i,ave doubled nv
r the men In the car had a son WBH tojd th,lt a On
in action in France. He khI? j bought a small tract r
1 never received official notice ppj- acre before the ru
fact, but had received a let- J through It and he hat
mi the young man's command- $;j20 j>er acre
leer telling of his death He county through which
heerful In spite of hfs son s s nnu- planning the <
and he said the son wrote ?>tfir roads on the
often before he was killed of plan." They propose
eatment they were receiving. ronrt Hnd pay hair its
nong other things he had said olf> property owners
hey were getting plenty of nut tho property owi
properly prepared. <ot ail fall upon the t
How in khaki came in and sit the land alongside th<
He lighted a cigarette and land adjacent, whethc
iwd noticed he had a stiff arm. not, to be assessed in
you wounded overseas?" he the benefits enjoyed.
;kcd "Oh, 'Jwrrv' got me in One man suggeste
m. hut it'll come around all other day that the i
1 can t bend my elbow and mobile tax for the c
gers ate stifl hut I think it roads is all wrong. 1
t all right. Anyway, it was j)y which he would rn
it and 1 wouldn't take any- j)y taxing gasoline. i
..... V, Tkl.
......... kwiiv ?"? . "?? present license tax o
follow then was told what the hoald remain as it it
soldier had told |he crowd ance (,f fjie tax shoui
l>ad treatment he had received, line, for the simple
>ok h > head. "Well, a good this tax is o support
doesn't talk that way he should he according
The chances are that hoy taxpayer uses the
ade to go agai si 'tis wishes according to what h
probably spent some time in garage. i use my a
tard house for violation of this method would h
and perhaps that's w hy lie's , . n other hut I 1
It is true that at times we jn i;?i8 I used 800 g;
have any too much food; we ,,, whivh meant tl
joing so fast that it was Ini- ahout x.ooo miles, ai
e to get the food to us. hut t, ??<pa% more for
id enough and we knew the 11 roads over whii
States was doing the beat it than a man who own
hile and traveled on
crowd knew this man knew (r \nother poit
ahout i than anvone in the ()m>s who use the ron
hut it agreed with him support them. For it
been using the good
th Carolina isn't as far ad r?.r the nasi seve
I in its road proeram a-- South m,t helping to pay
na. I was talking with a gcn-|||k(. n<.xt summer tho
i from Wilmington, onr from r visit-.is w II use
>n .ind a member of the login- Western N'orfh and
from Pender county, and and pay nothing to hi
vei'P Interested in what I told 1 gasoline tax w
of South Carolina's plans for , , i, would nay his
highways. I told thorn the support the roads h
rifion was too big to be eon- mobiles aie already
by Htate lines and that South ertv, and there shot:
oa's trunk highways and North other such tax put or
CASTER NEWS, LANCASTER, 8.
ill's must all be tax should be such as w
rent system and show it is a tax for thi
The Tar Heel roads, and. however
gathered, pro- unpopular it may be, I
i bonds to the submit that it is hardly
24,000,000 over automobiles and let a
rs for the con- glne untaxed come al
nance of roads, more harm to a road
cted that a liKe than an automobile coi
from the fed- year. Everything that
d with npprox- roads should help to paj
a of dollars. Recently at a meeting
. ..??*= ? *.<>*"> taster cuuniy auiomoD
i plan is not all- tion there was a lively c
to South Caro- to the tax paid by a Fo
tomobile license larner and more expensl
to seventy-five contention was that a Ft
and it is esti- by the manufacturer re|
between 7 5.000 if.'t horsepower and tha
lobiles in the paid upon it at the t
about the same horsepower, while a Fuel
111 be raised as presented by the man
i mis smie on navtng a norsepower ol
at $1.00 pci ami the rating given it
00 for trucks, which the license tax it
now a few The suggestion recorded
road which has at least eliminate this
In some sec- the tax for roads, if r
n part of the other and greater advan
used for pave- _____
reenahoro ano I was talking with a nt
nee of sixteen taken a trip to Florida
ete and asphalt mobile. He had started ?
wide. This is North Carolina where the
enite road, the, roads and passed Rock
roduct of War- C.. Cheraw, Camden. Co
id contracting gusta, Waynesboro. Sa<
n the north. Jacksonville. "I studied
nstructed some of those 700 ,nlle8'" he
Or. rather, the cause 1 had lo 8tudy
rhe stretch en-|Wrecked- ?ne tinie 1 dk
ligh Point has be undying something els
It cost $12.- !o ,ross 11 small briiige
uldition to this south in (5 rgia. which
K) per mile was enou?h for onlv ono an<1
g which had>ccuP,t,d by a hoilvily >'
Macadam was ber waRnn- and u was
* before. Thojs,",, Il,at?ad of a few d
il cost of $16.- to tho ?ning
been used Tor ml8R much of be,n* a
md looks like an in8Urance company,
ce cost during road on thwt who,e rou
las been negli-i ?eor*,a and the worat w
les along this M'a The beat was from
er and over. I Savannnh. and the worst
^ensboro man w?rld), was betweer
>f land for $60 and Jacksonvllle, and
ad came along l,aHsahle |n automobiles i
i now been of-1 U8R ?r a derrick of one I
for it The ot',er' to Pu" the car 01
thia road runs' and y?t this in In spite
onatruction of| ,hat the road haa been a
' "assessment | an<' " '8 ^ad "?w because
to build the Ren Pr?Perly repaired,
cost, assessing one t,,e greatest lesso
the balance. | ,M"'dlng. 'hat no matter
lera' half will ?f n road >'"u make, you
nan who owns " up and keep working o
? road, all the not refprrlng to Florida r
'r touching or havo roads that state
proportion to'Rro no n,orR afraid of
| taxes down there than t
<1 to me the! a,,'KarorH Jackso
>roposed auto- u1' %n" xv?nt to go
onatruction of 8ol,d t>rick roads
He has a plan road8- asPhalt roads. T1
ise a like sum j ,hRm- and w'th good
Said he: "The. r,M18R wonderful wea
" state would never have t
ed without them. Here
c, but the bal.
, county, with an assessec
a be on qasoof
$15,000,000. with co
reason that if
asphalt roads and the sr
the roads, it
inqs they have are in kf
to how much
the roads. Whv do they
roads and not
cause they have learned
le lias in his
things are worth more
utomobile and
other thinqs into which t;
't me heavier
put."
<now it is fair. _
a lions of paso- ??
at I traveled SCISSORS AM) PI
ml I therefore ??
the support of The llnse of Prosp
h I traveled (Atlanta Journa
ed an automo- A hroad assurance o
ly 1.000 miles *00,, for south
| The Griflln News and Sun
it Is that the ... . .. ... .
flits reqion will buy rr
id^ will pay to thinqs that are plentiful,
astance. I have fore cheao. while sellin
roads of Florl- ,hoso ,haf nrp short- an
. costly, than any other so
ral weeks and
applies, as our conten
for them just ef>rv,.;, n0f only to cottn
usands of sum- to food supplies in the
the roads of which the south is hel
Sooth Carolina | H*:inrp(' ^an ever before
tory.
ipport them If
rood production In I
eie in effect. T)1.,|n r,.|inru.(. fnr susta
fair portion to perlty. Whatever the
e uses. Auto- cotton may he. the fr
taxed as prop- ra,*PM ?n "hundanee of
nnd kindred staples ahoul
lid not he an- ,. .. ,
adjust himself advnnta
i them, hut the market conditions. Su[
J Uj jt ? i I rt,.:. ?
,.r-_ 4f
- 1 ~
c.
ould plainly r"7""l MM**
) use the
unanimously I I
respectfully ^ ^
fair to tax
traction en- A ^
ions and do. JjKK \
in an hour
lid do in a
uses the " | 'Lir
f for them.": * A It
of the Lan
ile associu-l
liscuBsion as; Saving is no long
rd and by :i family matter?it is
Ive car. The
>rd was sold' tion.
presented as rrt, , ,
I he war has show
t tax was
atiiiK of 2:1 is only so much whet
card was re- world and that by
ufacturer as ... , ,
someone is obliged t
60. or more..
1
. and upon It is the same w
paid, is 44 _ , ,
sources. Every dol
above woulo.
objection to bank goes to build 1
?ot prove of perity for all.
tage. 1
I
I
inn who had ' I"
In an auto-,
it a point in
y h*ve ro?", Bank of 1
ingbap*. N.
lumhia. Anan..
- "THE OII)
I every one
.. ... Lancas
said. beheni
or get
> 1
I happen to
o. and t t ie i l
. was wide I?
..as already '~~??
naded lum- r'se8 ani' he is minded to sell ai
, , many bales as he has raised; the protoo
late to
I ceeds ran be hanked as those of a
oil ms dam- j money crop, and will not be constimd
it didn't! ed In the purchase of food necessaod
Joke on! ries. Or suppose cotton does not
The best' reach what he considers a fair price;
, having a well-filled larder, he cat
te was in i _ , ... . .
afford to hold as many bales as he
as in tieor- wishes until the market improves
Augusta to Indeed, there is no decisive situation
. (worst in ?f southern agriculture or southern
i Savannah business which does not pivot on thf
production of adequate food sup
this is not .. . .. .. .
plies. The stronger the section bevlthout
the come jn (his respect, the surer will
kind or an- be its hold on permanent prosperity
nt of bogs. So varied are the resources of thf
of the fact Hm,th that it need never be depend.
ent on anv single field or group of
good roa?l
industries. Mining, lumbering and
it has not manufacturing of all kinds are open
Here i? to Its enterprise, no less than farmms
in road ing Hut In every pursuit it must
what kind rontpniber its fundamental food
needs if it would remain freehanded
must keep
and strong.
n It. I am
./...do TU?..
Why Waste Space.
, and they
. (Columbia State.!
bonus anrt
Already some of the prohibition
hev are of
societies are beginning a campaign
nvlle any- aRajnRj use af tobacco It Is a
. there are foolish thing for them to do. They
concrete are injuring the progress of theli
hey believe rampaign fur the abolition of thf
whiskev trafllc which, notwlthstandreason,
be- . ... ...
Ing their opinion to the contrary, is
1th of that not yet ended in victory. They arc
?een touch- bringing the prohibition of aleohol'r
is Volusia beverages Into ridicule and provid.
. .. ing a weapon to Its adversaries
1 valuation
At present the anti-tobacco agitancrete
and'
tion is not seriously taken and is a
hool build-j HU|,j0( j for hut It ought not tr
oping with be encouraged. Infatuated persons
do if? Be- however mell meaning they be. mat
that these *n prohibition move
ment were elements of economic anr
than any strength indispensable t<
nxes can be tj,e gU(.re8g which it has achieved 11
I-amending the federal constitution
The arguments against tobacco
plausible as some of them are in Iso
tSTK. lation. are on the whole trivial and
at this time, they Insult the cornmor
sense of the overwhelming majori
ty of the people Because they air
^ Inconsequential they are absurd nn<
f continued because they are absurd they ni<
i. It strikes wasteful.
' ,,,f> ,M<' The State, whatever its view o
lore of the
and there- ,ho w,S('om aml expediency of th<
g more of national prohibition law. will ass s
(i tnerororo bo rar as it may in t' enforcement
Ptlon." This because it is law, and 'I ? ^'a^o be
lporary oh- lieves that the value of its :>
n, but also would deteriorate worn It to glv< it
i matter of or of approbation to an anti-f nba"*-'
tter rlrcum- agitation by opening Its columns t<
in hor his- It.
Therefore, we must put our frlenr,
fact. Is our on notice that we have little spi<?
Ined pros- to lend them for a campaign that a
fortunes of jiesent can result only in harm am
irmer who confusion nnH iihlnli oi n-i ?i ?
train, mett could not possibly arouse a feeling
d bo able to other than of contemptuous mirth li
Keously to a considerable number of The Stute'i
>posn cotton r. aders.
L liV*jt>lli ' ? ' ^
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TUESDAY, FEB. 11, 1919.
flCE TO
fATION
or only a personal or
* a service to the na
n everyone that there
it, meat or wool in the
wasting these things
o go without them.
ith all material rqllar
deposited in this
Lip business and proshe
Lancaster
( American product* which will be
reimposed nn March 1. to allow the
1 Importation of American hoots and
shoes to the extent of 2f? per cent of
h.? number imported In 1013.
I'asse* Northwestward.
*! Washington, Feb. 10 The dlstnrhnnce
reported off the North
* Carolina coast Sunday night moved
* rapldlv northeastward and is ap*
parently central tonight near Sable
I island, the weather bureau an*
nounced.
ij Mr. and Mrs W. W. Boykin, of
4 Charlotte are visiting Mr. and Mm.
'Ira H Jones, Jr.
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RELIABLE,"
ter, S. C.
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SEATTLE'S STRIKE TO
OFFICIALLY END TODAY
i
- Decision |o Call (HI tln> ileneral
Strike Itenrlicil hy the Strike
Committee Yesterday.
i
>
Seattle, Feb. 10.?Seattle's generi
al strike, the first of Its kind ever
i attempted in the United States, will
* end officially at noon tomorrow.
Decision to call off the strike was
leached at 11 o'clock today by the
11 general strike committee.
j The resolution calling off the
> strike advised all labor unions which
( returned to work, Sunday or today
' to go on strike again until'tomorrow
I noon as a demonstration of the solidarity
of labor, so that all would re
turn to work together
Officials of the metal trades coun1
oi,, 25,000 members of which still
are on strike, refused to comment on
the effect which the end of the sympathetic
walkout would have on the
status of their strike
-m
COR.LFV, OF FAYKTTKVIM.K,
, BRINGS 1IOMK PObICK BOG
t New York, Feb. 10.?A Belgian
police dog, used by the Germans for
messenger service anil captured by
Americans and retained as a Yankee
i note carrier, was brought home hv
Lieut. James W Corley, of Fayettei
vllle. N. C. Lieutenant Corley ar'
rived here today on the steamer
Arakan. As an aviator. Lieutenant
- Corlev twice was shot down, being
wounded once, and accounted, he
. said, for six enemy planes.
i
, JAPAN INFORMS CHINA S|IK
MIST l\ UK I* IIKIt MOI'TH SIIIT
r London. Feb. 10. Japan has notified
China that China must work In
1 harmony with Japan at the peace
> conference, and must undertake not
i to reveal the conference secret
Chino Japanese agreements accord.
in" to a Reuters dispatch from Pe
king dated February 3.
The correspondent savs his infor>
matinn comes from Chinese sources.
- and Reuters says It should he re4
garded with some reserve.
BRITISH KM II MtOO MOHIFIKO.
ondon, Feb 10 The British Imf
port restriction control board has
. modified the proposed Oinhnrw nn